Litigators who work from home and have standing desks. Question from a second year starting at a new firm. The new firm is wfh/hybrid if I chose. My old firm was all in-office. I'm getting a standing desk obviously. My question is: how paper heavy is the life of a wfh litigator? This will decide how big of a standing desk I need. Is 48"×30" enough desk surface space? Or should I get a credenza too for some more paper storage space? I'm new to this so any advice/tips would be helpful.

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My firm is paper free. I got the smallest standing desk so it doesn’t consume most of the room

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Mh firm was paper free too. Other than a notepad and random papers I had lying around, there wasn’t a need for more storage space.

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Wfh litigator for two years now. Outside of two running notepads and post its, paper free.

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You don’t need a credenza anymore.

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I used to be extremely paper dependent. Since going WFH I'm paper free. I have a 40" standing desk that works well for me.

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I have a 40”x28” vari standing desk that I love. Mostly paper free, but I still find it’s spacious enough even if I lay out a few notepads, planner, etc.

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I stopped using paper in March 2020. I cleaned out my firm office a few months ago and threw out all the paper. I keep a notepad and one Redweld for organizing my notes at home. My home desk is tiny.

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Topic adjacent but what are the benefits to having a standing desk?

Not sitting for 8-10 hours while working, and then sitting for another hour while eating dinner, then sitting some more while watching TV before lying down for 5-8 hours to sleep before waking up the next morning to repeat the cycle. An hour of working out is nothing compared to all that sitting!

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How on earth can anyone work paper free? Maybe I’m old school, but I need to read stuff on paper. I tried it once—the paper free thing—and I simply couldn’t deal with it.

You can wean yourself off with notepads, comments/redlines, and empty emails for creating summary/bullet points.

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